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{{Short description|American football player and coach (1876–1923)}}
{{For|the Associated Press journalist|Samuel Boyle (journalist)}}
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = Sam Boyle
| image = Samuel A Boyle Jr.jpg
| alt = 
| caption = Boyle in 1895
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1876|11|28}}
| birth_place = [[Memphis, Tennessee]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1923|10|30|1876|11|28}}
| death_place = [[Rydal, Pennsylvania]], U.S.
| alma_mater = 
| player_years1 = 1894–1897
| player_team1 = [[Penn Quakers football|Penn]]
| player_positions = [[End (gridiron football)|End]]
| coach_years1 = 1898
| coach_team1 = [[Pittsburgh Athletic Club (football)|Pittsburgh Athletic Club]]
| coach_years2 = 1898–1899
| coach_team2 = [[VMI Keydets football|VMI]]
| coach_years3 = 1899
| coach_team3 = [[Penn State Nittany Lions football|Penn State]]
| coach_years4 = 1900
| coach_team4 = [[Dickinson Red Devils football|Dickinson]]
| overall_record = 14–12–1 (college)
| bowl_record = 
| tournament_record = 
| championships = 
| awards = Second-team [[College Football All-America Team|All-American]] ([[1897 College Football All-America Team|1897]])
| coaching_records = 
}}
'''Samuel Alexander Boyle Jr.''' (November 28, 1876 – October 30, 1923)<ref>Alumni File at the [[University of Pennsylvania]] Archives</ref> was an American [[college football]] player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the [[Virginia Military Institute]] (1898–1899), [[Pennsylvania State University]] (1899), and [[Dickinson College]] (1900), compiling a career coaching record of 14–12–1.

==Playing career==
Boyle played [[End (gridiron football)|end]] for the [[University of Pennsylvania]]<ref>[http://www.pennathletics.com/pdf4/18226.pdf?ATCLID=178362&SPSID=8591&SPID=537&DB_OEM_ID=1700#3 Penn Athletics] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715063727/http://www.pennathletics.com/pdf4/18226.pdf?ATCLID=178362&SPSID=8591&SPID=537&DB_OEM_ID=1700 |date=July 15, 2011 }} "All-Time Penn Football Honorees"</ref> and was declared a first-team All-American in 1897.<ref>[http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/documents/fbhpenn.asp Ivy League Sports] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050227224322/http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/documents/fbhpenn.asp |date=February 27, 2005 }} "University of Pennsylvania Honorees"</ref>

==Coaching career==
===Penn State===
Boyle was the head football coach at [[Pennsylvania State University]] for one season, 1899, compiling a record of 4–6–1.

===Dickinson===
After one year at Penn State, Boyle became the head football coach at [[Dickinson College]] in [[Carlisle, Pennsylvania]]. He led the 1900 Dickinson team to a record of 5–4.<ref>[http://www.centennial.org/football/2008/guide/PDF/21-23-Dickinson.pdf Centennial Conference] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081029080109/http://www.centennial.org/football/2008/guide/PDF/21-23-Dickinson.pdf |date=October 29, 2008 }} "2008 Centennial Conference Football Prospectus"</ref><ref>"The History of Football at Dickinson College, 1885-1969." Gobrecht, Wilbur J., Chambersburg, PA: Kerr Printing Co., 1971.</ref>

==Other athletic work==
Boyle continued to work around sports as an athletic official.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Decisive Defeat for Haverford |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1900/10/07/102616777.pdf |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=October 7, 1901 |access-date=March 25, 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Pennsylvania, 22; Gettysburg, 0 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1901/10/24/117976124.pdf |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=October 24, 1901 |access-date=March 25, 2019 }}</ref> He also worked as a [[player-coach]] for the [[Pittsburgh Athletic Club (football)|Pittsburgh Athletic Club]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=BCETAAAAIAAJ&dq=%2B%22samuel+boyle%22+%2Bfootball&pg=PA19 The Lafayette Weekly] "Football Notes" September 23, 1898</ref>

==Death==
Boyle died on October 30, 1923, at his home in [[Rydal, Pennsylvania]], after suffering from [[tuberculosis]] for more than five years.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Tuberculosis Kills Samuel A. Boyle, Jr. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29892503/the_philadelphia_inquirer/ |newspaper=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |location=[[Philadelphia|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] |date=October 31, 1923 |page=24 |access-date=March 25, 2019 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] {{Open access}} }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=November 9, 1923 |title=Obituary Notes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c7_mAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA135 |journal=The Pennsylvania Gazette |volume=22 |issue=6 |page=135 |access-date=March 25, 2019 |via=[[Google Books]] }}</ref>

==Head coaching record==
===College===
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[VMI Keydets football|VMI Keydets]]
 | conf      = Independent
 | startyear = 1898
 | endyear   = 1899
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1898 college football season|1898]]
 | name         = [[1898 VMI Keydets football team|VMI]]
 | overall      = 4–2
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      =
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1899 college football season|1899]]
 | name         = [[1899 VMI Keydets football team|VMI]]
 | overall      = 1–0
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      =
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = VMI
 | overall    = 5–2
 | confrecord = 
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Penn State Nittany Lions football|Penn State]]
 | conf      = Independent
 | startyear = 1899
 | endyear   = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1899 college football season|1899]]
 | name         = [[1899 Penn State football team|Penn State]]
 | overall      = 4–6–1
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      =
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Penn State
 | overall    = 4–6–1
 | confrecord = 
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Dickinson Red Devils football|Dickinson Red and White]]
 | conf      = Independent
 | startyear = 1900
 | endyear   = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1900 college football season|1900]]
 | name         = [[1900 Dickinson Red and White football team|Dickinson]]
 | overall      = 5–4
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Dickinson
 | overall    = 5–4
 | confrecord = 
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
 | overall  = 14–12–1
 | bowls    = no
 | poll     = no
 | polltype = 
 | legend   = no
}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Find a Grave}}

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[[Category:Players of American football from Memphis, Tennessee]]
[[Category:20th-century deaths from tuberculosis]]
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